After several weeks of light use of Open Office Word Processor, it now crashes. I found several others have had this same problem, however there were no real fixes only suggestions to load another word processor.

Since I am a newbie trying to migrate from XP to Ubuntu, I am sure there is a fix for it.

"If man made it; man can fix it."

SunnyRabbiera

June 9th, 2008, 04:26 AM

It might be java related, I know I had issues with it when I used the default java preinstalled with hardy.
Did you try to enable extra repositories and install the normal java?
and do you use a 64bit kernel?

It might be java related, I know I had issues with it when I used the default java preinstalled with hardy.
Did you try to enable extra repositories and install the normal java?
and do you use a 64bit kernel?

We all do love java don't we...

*sigh*

SunnyRabbiera

June 9th, 2008, 04:29 AM

We all do love java don't we...

*sigh*

Java is win some loose some, thank goodness sun is making it open source.

xravexheavenx

June 9th, 2008, 04:31 AM

Java is win some loose some, thank goodness sun is making it open source.

Indeed. May save us all some stress.

yo_pandabear

June 9th, 2008, 04:40 AM

It might be java related, I know I had issues with it when I used the default java preinstalled with hardy.
Did you try to enable extra repositories and install the normal java?
and do you use a 64bit kernel?

I thought I loaded every thing required. I would think I use the 32 bit kernel since this is on an old Dell GX 270 with 1+ gb memory. I am doing a trial setup on an old IDE 15 gb HD mounted in a removable HD tray. I also have a 250 gb HD I want to use but I have not got the partitioning down yet. I did the following partition.

Hmm, well in synaptic tell me what version of java you have installed... you know how to use it right?

yo_pandabear

June 9th, 2008, 04:54 AM

I am looking for the Java 32, however I did not install Open Office. It was included with the live CD.

SunnyRabbiera

June 9th, 2008, 04:56 AM

yeh open office is pre installed.
but I found out that if you replace OpenJDK with normal java it helps big time

yo_pandabear

June 9th, 2008, 05:04 AM

I am looking for Open JDK now. What is Open JDK? There must be a zillion. How do I know which to load?

Any ideas on the partition or site where I can get info?

thanks again

SunnyRabbiera

June 9th, 2008, 05:18 AM

Open jdk is the current open source version of java, all that is linked to it must be removed before trying regular java.
when searching for open JDK remove its packages, after that we will cover how to install regular java via synaptic.

rockerphil

June 9th, 2008, 05:26 AM

as stated before be sure to remove open JDK first. then to install regular Java run this in the terminal (i'm not too great with Synaptic. i live in the terminal)

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

then completely uninstall Open Office

sudo apt-get remove --purge openoffice.org

then reinstall Open Office

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org

hope this helps

yo_pandabear

June 9th, 2008, 10:17 PM

Thanks, it will be next week or so before I can try this out. We are leaving for a vacation today.